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    What age did you guys realise how important socialising and social skills were?

    I'm not sure if I have ever understood the importance of being part of some social clique. I am sure that I don't understand that now. I don't remember ever having any significant problems of not being part of any kind of group. Anyway... I have an opposite development as, according people who...
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    Being asked if you're autistic

    My final tip-off was when my coworker came to me at the company's Christmas party to tell that I resemble his little sister who was diagnosed with ASD and that I should get diagnosed as well 😊 To be honest: I never get that diagnosis. Tried this year. Public health care system don't take me in...
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    Being asked if you're autistic

    I am actually happy that I have heard such comments. Otherwise I would have never began to suspect it, remaining just with some vague understanding that there is something different in me.
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    Neurotypical vs. Neurodivergent Thinking — Opposites or Just Different Routes?

    Not to mention that publications describe just a stereotypical and imaginary autistic person who has all the common traits, while truth is that a real autistic person has only selected few of those traits. It is just about probabilities: "66% of autistic people have this trait", "55% of autistic...
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    Do you think a lot?

    I do tend to overthink, which slows down me focusing on matters that really matter. I mean that my task brings up some concepts and terms that I am not sure of, I need to start thinking of those things until I understand them and can judge if they are important or not. While doing this, there...
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    First Computer?

    Arg... Mixed up words. "remarkable achievement". You know what I mean...
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    First Computer?

    Based on my amateurish experience, that was a recommendable achievement. When DVD and digital TV came (late-90s, early 2000s?), I really hated that I had to burn subtitles to a picture when creating... um... copies for my personal and completely educational use. Text file based subtitles did...
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    First Computer?

    Should I be worried that I know almost all the computers mentioned in this thread? By name, of course, not that I have ever seen all of them. Only ones I didn't recognize were PC-2 (thought this was stupid one - I should have known it), Research Machines 380Z and PDP 11/45. Atari 520STFM...
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    Shutdown

    When I began to realize what autism is, I thought that "shutdown" is something like what happens to me. Shutting down the system. Going to a near-catatonic state. But now that I have read more about it, I have began to realize that almost all on-line resources describe it as "retreating from...
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    Whats your unique quirk or way you do things? (Ie. Tick or stim or routine)

    Oh, good... A little update to an importance of my movie night: Right now I am sick. I am a constant source of sneeze, cough and snot. My eyes get watered and I can't keep them open too long without itching and blurring of vision. But then a movie starts... Absolutely nothing. All ceases...
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    What is the purpose of spoken language?

    Add body language, facial expressions, tones of voice etc. Which are first forms of communication (at more complex level than just saying "danger" or "me here") *). Spoken language is merely built on those, and apparently proven so practical that while other forms of communication (body...
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    Confusion over financial subjects

    Familiar thing to me. I can be an expert on a matter, but I just don't remember terminology or recall the terms, and tend to mix terms when trying to talk in normal pace. It is like I am more tuned to remember concepts rather than words. Converting a concept to words is like making an extra...
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    Confusion over financial subjects

    Oh, sorry. I didn't realize it was about inflation protection. It is better that I shut up now and go to sleep, it is getting late and we are talking about complex issues.
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    Confusion over financial subjects

    Okay... To everyone in this thread with "get rich quickly" hopes: You should be aware of, and understand, concepts like the random walk, efficient market theory, alpha decay, and arbitrage opportunity elimination. About the subject itself: Currency trading (and any kind of trading actually)...
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    people who say they don't want help

    I agree with others that you don't have to eat at same time as he does... I am one of those people who don't feel hunger or thirst. I have a steady timetable and predefined amounts of food I eat to keep myself running properly. I can't wait for a feeling of hunger or I'll end up dead by...
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